9A Elevate - Pro for manufacturing

Designed to proactively support and evolve business applications for manufacturers.
Manufacturing organizations rely on business applications that must support complex, industry-specific processes - reliably today and adaptably over time.

9A Elevate Pro for manufacturing is a software, service, and optimization package that delivers a proactive operating model along with manufacturing-specific capabilities. This ensures your business applications continuously support production, planning, and execution as your organization evolves.

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What you get with the Pro for manufacturing package

All in‑scope manufacturing applications are operated using a proactive lifecycle approach, focused on stability, control, and continuous evolution.

This includes:

A dedicated Service Delivery Manager coordinating across manufacturing applications
Proactive monitoring of system health and usage
Structured governance with regular alignment moments
Release planning and controlled deployments
Periodic health and performance reviews

The focus is on preventing issues, managing change deliberately, and improving continuously - not just responding when something breaks.

9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing provides structured, predictable support aligned with how manufacturing organizations operate.

This includes:

Clear ownership and escalation paths
Consistent handling of incidents, changes, and improvements
Support aligned with manufacturing‑critical processes and timelines
A shared understanding of priorities across applications

This ensures clarity, continuity, and confidence - regardless of which manufacturing application is involved.

9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing includes extended usage capacity to support broader and more complex manufacturing scenarios.

This covers:

Support for expanding operational usage
Flexibility as adoption grows across teams, sites, or processes

Usage packs are designed to grow with your manufacturing organization - without introducing friction or uncertainty.

Our experts have spent years working in manufacturing environments, learning what consistently supports real operations. This package brings that experience together into a setup companies can rely on day to day.

Diederick Hallynck, CTO of 9altitudes

9A Elevate Pro for manufacturing

A package supporting your daily processes

9A Elevate helps secure and optimize your daily processes, allowing you to focus on what brings value instead of maintaining your business application.

The focus of your Pro for manufacturing package depends on the setup of your organization. It can span solutions such as:

Microsoft: Dynamics 365, Power BI, Fabric, Azure, Microsoft agents
PTC: Windchill, Creo, and related engineering platforms
9altitudes‑developed products and agents
Tulip, Capture, and connected operational systems

If you have one or more of these business applications, 9A Elevate Pro for manufacturing can help elevate your digital common thread.

Illustration of the digital common thread and 9A Elevate

Frequently asked questions

Risk in manufacturing often comes from unplanned disruptions and uncontrolled change.

9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing reduces this by operating your in‑scope applications with proactive monitoring, structured governance, controlled deployments, and periodic health/performance reviews - so issues are prevented or caught earlier.

A designated Service Delivery Manager ensures changes are planned, aligned, and executed with clear ownership, rather than handled ad hoc.

The result is fewer surprises, more predictable operations, and a setup that can absorb change without disrupting production‑critical processes.

9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing is designed to scale as complexity increases - whether that’s more users, new sites, new processes, or additional applications in scope.

It combines a proactive operating model with structured support and extended usage capacity, giving you room to grow without constantly re‑inventing how support and improvements are handled.

You also have a dedicated Service Delivery Manager who helps prioritize where effort and capacity should be applied as needs shift over time.
This keeps the model consistent while allowing the scope and focus to evolve with the business.

In case you eventually find that 9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing isn’t enough for you, you can upgrade to 9A Elevate Enterprise. Enterprise builds on top of your Pro, so you don’t have to ‘start over’ in any way, and a lot of the structures around it are as you know them from your Pro package.

Learn more about 9A Elevate Enterprise here >

Getting started depends on whether 9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing is applied to an existing business application or combined with the implementation of a new one.

For existing applications, onboarding begins with a structured handover and initial assessment. This gives us insight into how the application is set up, how it performs today, and where attention is needed. Based on this, the designated Service Delivery Manager establishes the operating model, governance, and priorities.

When a new business application is implemented, the same operating model is applied from the outset, ensuring governance, lifecycle management, and improvement practices are embedded early.

In both cases, the focus is on establishing clarity, ownership, and a proactive way of working from day one.

Is Pro for Manufacturing the right fit for your journey?

9A Elevate Pro for Manufacturing is a good fit if you want to:

Proactively improve how your manufacturing applications support daily operations
Reduce operational risk while scaling processes, usage, and complexity
Rely on industry‑specific capabilities across ERP, PLM, Service, or related applications
Share responsibility for optimization with an experienced partner, without losing control

It’s especially relevant for manufacturing organizations running make‑to‑order, make‑to‑stock, engineer‑to‑order, or hybrid models, where accurate costing, planning, and execution are critical.

Interested in how this applies to your manufacturing setup?

Talk with one of our experts